Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia, AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK, ISRIC – World Soil Information, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands, Environmental Change Initiative, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Systems Ecology, Institute of Ecological Science, VU Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu 51014, Estonia, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA, Botany and Plant Sciences Department, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama ABSTRACT